BJHanssen

@BJHanssen@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I may be wrong about the actual reason for this - as ‘double V’ is also quite common - and it may just end up being some kind of ‘well when the printing press came to England’ thing, but:

  In the classical Latin alphabet, the letter ‘V’ was not actually representative of what we today recognise as the /uv sound (or its variants). It was in fact the written form of the /u/ sound (and related variants). So when the W was introduced to the English alphabet, I guess it was indeed a ‘double /u/‘.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Football Manager's "biggest technical advancement for a generation" arrives November, but lower your expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been a necessary step for over a decade, honestly. Hoping it goes well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Natural Inspiration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m from Vesterålen in Northern Norway and this is giving me huge home vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m guessing it’s a combination of dun/den/tun etc being a common suffix in a lot of hustorical languages, and ‘ei’ being an extremely common diphthong worldwide just… leading to a lot of similar-sounding names that also converge in spelling in modern English?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me - YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AoE2 soundtrack is a timeless banger. Still have the CD from the Collectors Edition somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A post may receive a hundred replies and host a fat and exciting conversation tree, but if one moderator doesn't like it then it may be locked or deleted. Is that immoral?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna ignore all context for the purposes of answering / contributing to a discussion of a kinda valid underlying question:

  There is a disconnect between moderation and membership in an ostensibly democratic social media structure. How could that gap be bridged?

  The way I see it, this is basically the representation vs delegation debate, though here it is arguable whether there is even representation. From this perspective, you can draw on a couple of hundred years of theory and practice to arrive at potential structures.

  For example, you could have a system where members of a community mark themselves as willing to moderate it, and all members select a willing delegate essentially their ‘moderating power’ to. Mods are then selected by number of delegations, which would be a fluid process because users can redistribute their ‘votes’ at any time. This would make mods immediately answerable to the members.

  To make the system less vulnerable to highjacking you would probably need some kind of delay in there so that you wouldn’t suddenly get a mass influx of new users delegating to the same mods to take over the community, and there would likely need to be other measures in place as well. But ot would certainly be a neat experiment!